Also appearing will be a diverse range of other names, including UFC fighter Paul Craig, Still Game stars Scott Reid and Matt Costello, Taggart actor Colin McCreadie and a host of others.

Former Stonelaw High pupil Scott, who plays Ross in Outlander, admitted he’s hoping he doesn’t get the runaround on the day.

He said: “I’m looking forward to the whole event – the hard part is that I’m now trying to get into shape for it.

“I’ve always played football since I was a kid and I did [the play] Singin I’m No A Billy, He’s A Tim, so football has been a big part of my life.

“I’d love to get chatting to someone like Ally McCoist at the game, but I don’t fancy having to mark him at a corner!

“I know Brian McPhee [former Livingston and Airdrie striker] so there’s been a bit of banter with him already.

“I’m hoping to outrun a few of them on the day, and in my head I’ll be saying to myself, ‘see, you could have been a contender!”

He’s also delighted to help out a worthy cause.

He added: “St Andrew’s Hospice is a great cause and it’s important that we do what we can to help it.”

Scott Kyle, far left, from Rutherglen with the rest of the Outlander cast on location near Crieff

Scott has been busy with his acting career recently too, voicing the lead role in Scottish animated feature Tubgate: Cunningham’s Scrap.

It will be screened at various film festivals over the summer, and voicing an animated character was a new experience for Scott.

He said: “It’s by a fellow called Fraser Murdoch and I’m really excited about it.

“I voice the main character, Bab, who owns a scrapyard where all sorts of dodgy things are going on. It’s The Simpsons but a bit more for adults.

“That’s been different to work on compared to anything else I’ve done.

“I thought we’d be firing the lines in and then we’d be seeing the animation soon after; the process of designing the characters has taken a lot longer.

“I’ve been going back in a few times to re-do my lines, to make sure they match the character as much as possible.

“That’s something I’ve never done before and that’s what you want to do as an actor, to keep doing different things.

“Hopefully it’ll be released through Amazon Prime and we can take it on further – while working on it we met guys from Dreamworks, we met people that had worked on films like the Lion King and Aladdin, and that was really interesting.”

The charity football match between the Hospice Heroes and Advertiser All-Stars will take place this Saturday, June 2 at 1pm, with tickets costing £10 for adults and £5 for under-16s and concessions.

Tickets are available from a variety of Airdrie and Coatbridge retail outlets, or alternatively from the stadium on the day of the game.